Bridgeton pioneer., 1887-04-07
NO. 2O37
A RELIC OF THE WAR.
How Englishmen Profited by the
Late Rebellion. V


Moorhouse after the fire, and is in
possession of one of our citizens, who
handedsns this copy for publication
II LEADENHALL STREET,
LONDON, Both March, 1864.
CHARLES HILL, ESQ,
Dear Sir:-The account of No. 2,
which Mr.. Hall went to the Confeder-
acy to bring home, have not yet reach
ed us. Mr.. Hall having been detained,
first at Nassau, and then at Bermuda.
We wrote him by last mail, either to
come home at. once or to send his ac-
counts home, if he, himself, cannot get
away. Another steamer, the Annie"
has gone out for this venture, and, we
believe, has made one successful run.
In other respects there is no change
from the state matters were in when
you were here. Venture, No. g. Oct
%, due one-fourth of our interest in
Dom and Hanna" was sold to N orth
Carolina Government for $4,000, pay
able in cotton warrants here. We have
since been informed that this one
fourth interest was altered to one
third, the main object of this arrange
ment was to get rid of the third which
the Government claims of our cargo of
cotton outward. You will see, without
further explanation, the great advan-
tage of the arrangement. Till next
Nassau mail comes in we cannot give
you any very exact statement of the
position of No. 8, but our estimate is
that about 1000 bales are already run
through the blockade. The Don"
has run out five cargoes as under the
Hanna" eight of these 1865 bales have
!, enl1 raal;zo6 geo T-R. e61 b.,loc.
sold but not yet accounted for to us,
e3O, 900: 451 bales, not yet sold, e20, 1000;
969 bales, in process of shipment by
last advices, G44, 900; 400 bales, not yet
shipped, e19,000 The expenses in
Cured in 10 successful runs and un-
successful ones are estimated at $50,
600, but exact account will no doubt
reach US by next or following mail
We will, therefore, in 10 or IA days, be
in position and divide per cent. on
No. and in few weeks more 5 per
cent. extra and in three or four months
we should have cotton home and
realized to pay Is to 20 per cent. in all.
| Please to bear in mind that it takes
three to four months to get cotton
realized in Liverpool from the date of
| it's frat arrival in Nassau, and that the
arrival of Nc. 8 was on Sept. 9. We
give you all the information on Mfr.
Batterly's account, although we have
declined to give any such information
in the middle of an operation, to any
of our other friends. To do so gen
orally would involve endless trouble
and more correspondence than we have
time for Please therefore, consider
this letter confidential, except as re-
CARDS Mr.. Battery. Three-fourths or
two-thirds of the Dom was owned in
| Venture at date of capture, but we be-
lieve all the cargo was on Government
account. No details have yet reached
us however, and ourinformation is de-
rived from Yankee newspapers.
We are yours truly,
| AELEXR COLLIE & Co.
Dom 1st run, Sept. 8, 279 bales; I'd
run, Oct 12, 300 bales; Sd run, Nov. 19,
1854 bales; 4th run, missed and returned;
5th run, missed and returned; 9th run,
July 13, 274; 7th run, Feb. s. 274, Stll
run, March, captured Hanna, :" list
run, Sept. nth. $50 bales; I'd run, Oct.
9, 353 bales; Sd run, Oct. %, 81 bales;
4th run, Nov. IA, 219 bales; 5th run,
Dee 12, 375; 9th run, Jan. 9th, $780,
| 7th run, Feb. /, 800; Sth run, Feb. 10,
365. Till next or following mail we
cannot have exact figures. Some
tobacco has been brought out on
freight and some freight has been
earned, which will tend to improve the
assets. Details of these, however, have
not yet reached us. Our boats have
been worked SO fast and so successful
i that our hands could not keep up will.
them. From Mr.. Batterly we have nc
accounts whatever, although we have
written to have them sent on to US.
Since writing the above we have
learned that all to No. 2 ascounts IN
the Confederaey will be in cur posses
sion and ready for your inspection after
the arrival of next Bermuda mail,